June 16, 2006
Guinea Pigs in the ER
Researchers debate the ethics and logistics of performing emergency research without patients' consent
In late 1997, the ethical frontline of emergency medicine was located in the back of an ambulance barreling toward Lehigh Valley Hospital, in Allentown, Pa. At that moment, paramedics were struggling to keep a trauma victim alive, trying to prevent the patient from bleeding to death before reaching the hospital.
Ambulances don't carry blood, so paramedics normally have only one
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